Paragraph 46D Postal voting documents left behind with the returning officerF1
Where a person leaves a left behind postal voting document with the relevant officer in accordance with paragraph 43(2), the relevant officer must reject that left behind postal voting document.
The relevant officer must—
write on a return of postal voting documents form to confirm that the postal voting document is a left behind postal voting document,
write the relevant officer’s name on that form, and
attach that form to the left behind postal voting document.
Left behind postal voting documents and the attached return of postal voting documents forms must be included in the packet of rejected postal voting documents and forms made up in accordance with regulation 46C(2).
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Sch. 2 paras. 46A-46E inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Representation of the People (Postal Vote Handling and Secrecy) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1225), regs. 1(2), 8(6)(g)